Red letter days on a calendar were put there in Roman times to give them special attention. Red days are magical days, special days. Red letter days are important days, days set aside for special attention, days we don't do the normal work. We pay more attention to our family and friends on red days.
Today is Christmas Eve, one of the most magical days of the year. Children go to bed with sugarplum dreams, with eager anticipation of Christmas morning.
The colors of Christmas, red and green, are of love and vitality, of magic and healing.
Red days are full of life, desire, passion and love. Red days evoke healing and vitality, even aggression and danger. There is excitement, maybe dread, maybe hope. We visit more with families and friends and find time to bring in music and color and special meals.
We have made it past winter solstice and the sun is coming back to us! The days will get longer again. Red is a sign of recognition and change.
In India the red caste was for soldiers. For Pawnee, it was the color of life. In China red represents joy. In five element therapy, red is Mars and fire. Red is for standing up to enemies, soldiering on, honoring life to its fullest. Red has an energy that cannot be ignored.
English physicians once wore scarlet cloaks and red flags were displayed in rural areas to signal doctors to come to someone in need of healing. Scarlet cloths were used to stop bleeding and to thwart small pox. Red was used actively thus to promote good health.
Rubies were worn in china to promote long life. I wear a ruby ring to enhance my sun which is exalted in my sixth house of enemies. This is a placement that supports my life goal to help people fight against hurtful thoughts. It's a house for psychologists, where one can fight enemies with mental health techniques. So my ruby ring supports who I am and want to be. I wouldn't mind a long meaningful life with a legacy of spreading joy.
If you have a crimson aura, it is said to indicate a loving nature.
Research has shown that using a red light helps to produce taller plants but with thinner leaves. Maybe the growth was focused in the stem to the detriment of the leaves. Perhaps that is a sign that we should be patient with growth, let it happen without pushing it.
Red candles are good for love and success.. representing life and health. Use them to awake consciousness of clean living and honor, to stimulate purity of intention and awaken visions of truth and success.
Red light bulbs can be used to give energy and promote weight loss. The old dark rooms used red light because the photographic negatives weren't reactive in this light. I don't know the connection of those two sentences. I am amused though, thinking of photographers jumping around and keeping trim while they worked with film and chemicals.
In color therapy red is used to breathe in vitality and to reduce pain. When I used hypnotherapy to help with pain relief, I would suggest a focus on the deepest of reds, to visualize a brilliant crimson, fire engine red. From there I would suggest lighter shades, tulips and geraniums, and continuing to soften the color until it became a washed out version, a soft pink, a pain that could easily be tolerated. Some pain is left, just to remind the person that they need to heal and to continue to allow healing. People who cannot feel pain miss warning signals that are protective. Leprosy is an example where a person wouldn't be able to feel at all and would batter numb toes and fingers against objects unknowingly and damage them, losing lips and noses and toes in the process.
Color therapy uses red to stimulate .. to begin brain wave activity used to stimulate and increase heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, and to excite sexual glands. Valentine's Day is another red day, though sexier than Christmas.
Red is a day of fire and energy and soldiering on. Let's use this red day to reinvest our time and energy in fighting the good fight, wherever that leads us.
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